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Michael
Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and
lecturer. He is one of the nation’s leading progressive political
analysts. His highly informative and entertaining books and
talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America
and abroad.

"A
prolific author, a charismatic speaker, and a regular guest
on radio and television talk shows, Parenti communicates
his message in an accessible, provocative, and historically
informed style that is unrivaled among fellow progressive
activists and thinkers."
— Aurora Online, January 2004

"Michael
Parenti is a towering prophetic voice in American life.
We need him now more than ever." —
Cornel West

"Parenti offers a valuable rebuttal to the drumbeat...from the right." — New York Times Book Review

"A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of
documentation to implement his attacks." —
The Catholic Journalist

"Michael Parenti is one of the greatest writers that this country has ever produced. As a historian he is a preeminent interpreter of our times. . . . He has an undeniable sense of reality and he speaks with tremendous authority of feeling. What he has offered our world is absolutely extraordinary." —
Justin Desmangles, Chair, Board of Regents, Before Columbus Foundation, 2014.

"Here
at home and throughout the world people are fighting
back against the forces of wealth, privilege, and militarism
—
some because they have no choice, others because they would choose
no other course but the one that leads to peace and justice."
— Michael
Parenti

From from welfare to wealth care, from pedophiles to popes, from plutocrats to environmental plunderers—these are just some of the indecencies of contemporary socio-economic life that Profit Pathology takes on. Here, Michael Parenti investigates how class power is a central force in our political life yet subject to little critical discernment. He notes how big-moneyed interests shift the rules of the game in their favor while undoing the gains of social democracy, from the New Deal to the present. Parenti also traces the ruthless economic forces that have operated through much of American history, including the mass displacement and extermination of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans. Parenti is a master at demonstrating the impact of monomaniacal profit accumulation on social services, including health care and utilities. In this book he shows how unrestrained capitalism becomes a "self-devouring beast" that endangers itself and all of us. Finally, Parenti calls for a solution based on democratic diversity and not-for-profit public ownership—"because it works."

"Michael Parenti's poignant and wonderfully written memoir proves that nostalgia--in the right hands such as his--can be a liberating force."
—Stanislao Pugliese, Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian-American Studies

"This book is a remarkable combination of the personal and political, a brave, honest memoir and a provocative social analysis presented in a captivating way."—Milina Jovanovic, Ethnic Studies Scholar

"Michael Parenti's The Face of Imperialism is a powerful, frightening, and honest
book. It will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by people
who are searching for truth amidst the piles of garbage of Western propaganda.
Above all, this book will be like a bright spark of hope for billions of men, women,
and children who are fighting this very moment for survival, defending themselves
against the Empire and against all monstrous faces and masks of imperialism."
—Andre Vltchek, author of Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad

Michael Parenti brings his critical acumen and gifted writing skills to bear on the dark side of religion, the many evils committed in the name of godly virtue throughout history. This is not a blanket condemnation of all believers. The focus is on the threat posed by fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries. Historically anchored and biblically informed, this eloquent indictment of organized religion's delusions and abuses will be welcomed by secular laypersons and progressive religionists alike.

Here
is a rich buffet of his deep but lucid writings on real history,
political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture,
ideology, media, environment, gender, and ethnicity -- along with a few
choice selections drawn from his own life experiences and political
awakening.